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F. D. SUTTON.

ARTISTS WET CANVAS CARRIER. v No. 408,937. r Patented Aug. 13, 1889.

N. Pains, PhuloLilhogra phar, Washington D. c,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK D. SUTTON, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

ARTISTYS WET-CANVAS CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,937, dated August13, 1889.

Application filed January 14, 1889- Serial No. 296,276. (No model.)

To 00% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK D. SUTTON, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and Improved Artists Vet-CanvasCarrier, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a device enabling artists to conveniently carrytwo wet canvases of the same or different sizes without danger of marring their freshly-painted faces; and the invention has forits object toprovide an inexpensive, readily adjustable, and efficient device of thischaracter.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction andcombinations of parts of the canvas-carrier, as hereinafter describedand claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pair of wet canvases held in myimproved carrier. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical transverse sectionalelevation thereof; and Fig. 3 is a detail cross-section of one of theclamp-plates at one of its canvas holding pins, the pin being shown asit appears when origin ally made and before riveting it to theclamp-plate.

The canvas-carrier is made with opposite clamp-plates A B, provided,respectively,with central longitudinally-rangin g strips to h, eachplate having one or more pins or studs O projecting from it at one sideof its strip a or b to enter the canvas-frame. One of the clampplates isprovided with an ordinary strap D for binding the two wet canvases E Eto the clamp-plates, and a handle-strap F is provided on one of theplates by which to carry the wet canvases more conveniently.

In the preferred form of the carrier the clamp-plates A B are made ofstrips of weed out to suitable lengthsay about one footand rabbeted outat one face and opposite edges to provide a solid strip a or b, whichseparates the wet canvas faces, while the two canvases rest in therabbets of the clampplates; but the spacing-strips may be made separateand be afterward fixed to the main bodies or parts of the plates. Anysuitable material other than Wood may be used to make theclamp-platescast or sheet metal, for instanceas may be preferred.

The pins or studs O are preferably made with heads 0, which have aflange c, which is let in flush with the face of the clamp-plate, fromwhich the pin projects, and the main portion of the pin-head, which fitsa hole made through the clamp-plate, projects beyond the outer face ofthe plate a little and is countersunk or bored at its extremity, asshown at c in Fig. 3 of the drawings, so that it may be easily andthoroughly clinched at the back of the clamp-plat e, as most clearlyshown in Fi 2 of the drawings, whereby a most secure fastening of thepin to the clamp-plate is assured and it will resist withdrawal fromeither face of the plate. The head of the pin may be made to screw intothe clamp-plate, if preferred.

In adjusting the clamp or carrier to the two wet canvases E E the pins Cof the two clampplates A B will be forced into opposite edges of one ofthe can vases or its frame 6, while the face of the canvas lies near orclose to the spacing-strips a Z) of the plates. This holds one canvassecurely to the two clamp-plates and allows them to be turned overtogether without danger of the canvas slipping from the plates. Theother canvas E will now be laid into the opposite rabbets of the twoclamp-plates and onto or against the spacingstrips a Z) thereof, and thestrap or hinder D, which is held in an ordinary keeper (Z 011 one of theclamp-plates,will then be passed around the plates and canvases andbuckled or fastened, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, and thecanvases will be securely bound in the carrier and may be carried aboutby the handle or strap F without the slighest danger of the wet faces ofthe canvases coming in contact to mar the work of the artist. Byunfastening the strap the canvases may be easily removed from thecarrier in the reverse order in which they were placed in it.

The clamp-plates may be used without the pins 0 entering one of the twocanvases; but the use of the pins guards the canvases against slippingagainst each other while the artist is putting them in. and taking themfrom the carrier; hence the construction of the carrier with the pins orstuds is preferred in practice. I may use one or two pins in eachclamp-plate.

It is obvious that one of these carriers may be used to transport twocanvases having about the same dimensions one way; hence two wetcanvases of different sizes may be easily carried by the device in thewoods or fields or elsewhere by one of the carriers, and as the wetcanvases face each other and are quite close together one will protectthe other against dust or storms while in transit.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in an artists wet-eanvas carrier, of opposingclamp-plates having spacing-strips for separating two canvases, and astrap or binding device, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The combination, in an artists wetcanvas carrier, of opposingclamp-plates having spacing-strips for separating two canvases, a strapor binding device, and a handle at one of the clamp-plates,substantially as herein set forth.

The combination, in an artists wet-canvas carrier, of opposingclamp-plates having spacing-strips for separating two canvases, saidplates provided with pins entering one of the canvas-frames, and a strapor binding device, substantially as hcrein set forth.

4-. The combination, in an artists wet-canvas carrier, of opposingclamp-plates A B, pro vided, respectively, with spacing-strips a 1),pins 0, set into the plates, a binding-strap I), and a handle F,arranged and operating substantially as herein set forth.

FREDERICK D. SUTTON,

\Vitnesses:

, .TAS. R. SUTTON,

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